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Follow My Vote has been featured on Nasdaq.com! The Nasdaq Stock Market is an American stock exchange, and is the second-largest exchange in the world by market capitalization, the first being the New York Stock Exchange. The Nasdaq website displays information about stock quotes, markets, business news, and investing. Bitcoin Magazine, which has featured Follow My Vote before, is actually a contributor …

Brian Fox joining Follow My Vote as an Advisor has been one of the biggest updates of 2016 so far. Brian J. Fox is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, consultant, author, free software advocate, and original author of the GNU Bash shell. Currently, Brian is the CEO of a venture technology company called Opus Logica, Inc. On February 22, Brian …

Although not the only search engine in the world, Google is by far the largest and has expanded into many different areas of the web. Including their social media site, Google+ and acquiring Youtube, Google is an incredibly large force that won’t be reckoned with anytime soon. Google has recently tried their own hand at creating an online voting platform …

Many people agree that they simply do not have enough time to research candidates properly and are ultimately uninformed on current events. This leads to opinions being made without sufficient research and facts. Thanks to technology there are some tools that help condense the current campaign promises from each of the candidates running for office in 2016. There is a …

Earlier this summer Los Angeles County, California announced a plan to move towards an open source voting model. It’s pretty crazy to think that the same place that hosts some of the most innovative tech companies in the world is just now moving away from archaic voting methods. Under the new system, slated for public use in 2020, voters will …

There are many great avenues you can choose from thanks to the beauty of the internet but further than the creation of an online petition, what are some things that you can do to make sure that your petition continues moving strong? This article takes a look at some great ideas that you can implement into your petition strategy to …

There is a long standing debate that online voting may not be possible due to the nature of technology itself. Simply as we continue to find new ways to keep our information secure and safe, technology that makes said security measures obsolete are in the making. However there is one technology that makes it almost impossible to hack the system, …

Through many of our posts you will see Follow My Vote’s relationship with CAVO and other partners at the Open Source Initiative (OSI). We thought it to be important to our readers to find out more about this organization and see some of their work in action through this interesting article. We would have to agree that the Open Source …

We are happy to present one of the major players in the push for more transparency in democratic elections and the push to digitizing the process in the open source community. This article and interview hears from Brent Turner about how the California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO) uses open source software to bring trust back into the process of …

This article takes you on a journey of one company’s dream to utilize the Blockchain technology that allowed BitCoin to be so hugely successful to completely revolutionize how we use the internet. Along with this post you can find one of the better explanations of Blockchain technology and how it might be utilized to create what is being called the …

The are many out there that oppose the idea of online election voting. And, while opposition is a good thing to have, it is important to be educated as to when an opposer may be using older data or case studies to oppose your ideas that may have already been debunked. Such is the case with the common claim of …

To kickoff each fall semester, Virginia Tech hosts an event called Gobblerfest to welcome the incoming freshman class and encourage them to learn about various clubs and extracurricular activities available to students. At Gobblerfest, clubs and organizations setup booths and hand out information about why students should join their respective club. The diversity of clubs at Virginia Tech is phenomenal. There …